The Land of Goshen - Blog
When most of us think of Goshen our minds immediately take us to the Exodus because we are very aware that God sent Moses to Egypt to tell Pharaoh to let His people go so that they could freely worship Him. I have now heard countless prophetic voices prophecy that we (His children) will be in Goshen while He deals with and judges the wicked that are even now like Pharaoh's and not only enslaving us but also trying to destroy us. This evil system that we are living under has been hidden from us for over a century, but the plan has been there far longer than all of us even know or comprehend. In fact, I believe that I could say for Millenia as Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. If we take that scripture all the way back to Genesis 6, we can clearly see that what we are experiencing now in our time is nothing new. The enemy doesn't give up. He just uses different names and different people and continues to come after God's people with his evil plan of wiping them out. Why? I believe Isaiah 14:14 gives us the answer.
Isaiah 14:14
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’
ONLY 8
His plan all along is to become like the Most-High God. Although this particular blog will not go back to the Garden of Eden with the deception of Adam & Eve or even through all of the reasons that Satan used Angels (who in the Old Testament were called 'The Sons of God' {see the book of Job} to turn against God and come down to lay with the daughters of men there is more to it and the mind-blowing reason that God had to have Noah build that Ark where in the end God could only find 8 people who were the Bible says 'Perfect in their generation'. What does that even mean? Obviously, Noah was not a perfect man. Dear ones, it means only 8 people were left on the earth at that time with the pure bloodline that the Lord created them with. The 'Sons of God/Angels' had destroyed the bloodline by mating with the daughters of men and creating a race of giants in the land that were never meant to be here who defiled everything they touched including the animals. There is so much more to say but I think I've written enough blogs about this, so I won't continue down this road. If you ever have questions, I am ALWAYS happy to hear from you and share the knowledge that I have as well as books, and those who teach on this because the truth is we truly are being destroyed for a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). Even now the church is blinded to the wiles of the enemy. I am just one voice but a voice crying out in the wilderness saying WAKE THE HECK UP... lol People truly must wake up because if they don't, they are going to be absolutely shocked by what is going to happen in the next months and even years to come. In fact, the Bible says that some hearts will fail for what they fear is coming upon the earth (Luke 21:26) and this is where we are right now.
TAKE IT FOR YOUR FAMILY
I just love the prophecies given about the Lord's people being protected and early on I took for myself and my family that 'we choose to believe God and live in Goshen' just as the children of Israel did in Exodus. In the book of Exodus, we clearly see that God didn't just swoop in and save all of His people. No, because of free will, He had to show His own people that He was there to deliver them but also show His people that Pharaoh, Baal, etc... were not gods at all. They did not have to live a life of enslavement. He had more for them. He wanted them to be free to worship Him. Many people preach that God just said, 'Let My people go.' but that isn't really what God said. He said, Let My people go so that they can freely worship Me.' Therefore, He wasn't delivering them just to live a life of debauchery, idol worship, or lives away from Him. No, His plan all along was to care for them, to love them, and that they would not only see but also comprehend what He did for them and what He'd taken them out of and that they (the children of Israel) would love Him for it, and they would FREELY worship Him.
USE YOUR IMAGINATION
Take yourself in your imagination to the days of the plagues. Close your eyes and imagine living in a place called Goshen where you were a slave to the evil overlords around you but then one day Moses & God step in and all of a sudden bizarre events start taking place. You are seeing thousands upon thousands of flies, frogs, locusts and more go in and take over Egypt but nothing is coming near you. You are seeing water turn to blood, hail, and even boils on the skin of Egyptians but nothing has come to your home at all. You watched as all the cattle of Egypt died but yours went untouched. I know it's hard for us today to imagine how the Israelites could have literally witnessed all of this amazing stuff happening to deliver them only to end up creating Idols to worship with the very riches He'd given them, but the Bible tells us that is what happened. However, we are I believe a much stronger people who were born for such a time as this. We have a relationship with Jesus that they did not have. We are Holy Spirit-filled people who although enslaved for generations know and understand that it is through our worship and prayer to our Father in Heaven that He is coming yet again to deliver us (His people) so that we can make the decision to freely serve Him. Our Father in Heaven has all intentions of protecting us as things unfold. Don't allow yourself to even doubt it.
Exodus 8:21-23
‘God’s Message: Release my people so they can worship me. If you don’t release my people, I’ll release swarms of flies on you, your servants, your people, and your homes. The houses of the Egyptians and even the ground under their feet will be thick with flies. But when it happens, I’ll set Goshen where my people live aside as a sanctuary—no flies in Goshen. That will show you that I am God in this land. I’ll make a sharp distinction between your people and mine. This sign will occur tomorrow.’”
Exodus 9:24-26
The hail came, hail and lightning—a fierce hailstorm. There had been nothing like it in Egypt in its entire history. The hail hit hard all over Egypt. Everything exposed out in the fields, people and animals and crops, was smashed. Even the trees in the fields were shattered. Except for Goshen where the Israelites lived; there was no hail in Goshen.
DELIVERED FROM IT OR BROUGHT TO IT
I have been seeking the Lord on Goshen for several years now and even more so recently as we get closer and closer to the GREAT TURNAROUND, we can see in our modern day that God is using plagues, signs and wonders yet again to deliver His people. I woke up recently hearing these words. "I didn't just deliver My children from Goshen. I originally took them to it. It was a place of beauty and safety. Prosperity and abundance for My children." I was pretty stunned. I mean as I said in the beginning of this blog when most of us think of Goshen our minds go directly to Moses delivering the people from it but how did they get there in the first place? Once I began asking myself this question it led me to the word of God and into the book of Genesis. I will share several scriptures below, but I believe they are important for us to understand in this time because our place of wonder and beauty can become our place of bondage and slavery if we choose to walk away from the Lord and start serving Idols instead of worshipping the very God who delivered us.
JOSEPH KING OF DREAMS
I will bet you that everyone reading this right now would say that the story of Joseph is one of their all-time favorites. Joseph's dreams of his future, the jealousy and hatred of his brothers who sold him into slavery and the Lord never leaving him but raising him up for a time and season that he had no idea was coming other than the dreams God had given him at a young age. Joseph is not only the key to show us destiny, faithfulness, healing, forgiveness and restoration but Joseph is also the very reason his father Jacob, and his brothers' families (the tribes of Israel) ended up in Goshen in the first place. Let's look at Genesis 45:9-11.
Genesis 45:9-11
“Hurry back to my father. Tell him, ‘Your son Joseph says: I’m master of all of Egypt. Come as fast as you can and join me here. I’ll give you a place to live in Goshen where you’ll be close to me—you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and anything else you can think of. I’ll take care of you there completely. There are still five more years of famine ahead; I’ll make sure all your needs are taken care of, you and everyone connected with you—you won’t want for a thing.’
Notice here that Joseph is not only going to take care of hundreds and hundreds of people once you put the tribes together with all of their families and grandchildren etc... but he also says, 'there are still five more years of famine ahead.' Are we not in this situation today? Every single day we want to just wake up and hope that it's all over with or gone. The Democrats are out of office. The Deep State has been brought down. The RINOs have had a change of heart and are working with us instead of against us. Our food, water, and air are no longer being poisoned. Our children are not being pulled into the evil culture that has been created by so much lawlessness driving them to sex, drugs, and rebellion. Dear Ones, I believe that many are deceived into believing that just because Trump won this last election all will be well but let me tell you that that simply is not truth. We still have a long fight ahead. God needs us and He needs our voices calling this garbage down. Just as Joseph said to his family, 'There are still five more years of famine ahead, I say to you today that there are possibly many months and might possibly still be a few more years of this shaking ahead of us, but we have to stand with God and with the prophets and BELIEVE that our Father will not allow anything to come near us or our families or our dwellings and while the plagues are happening all around us His heart is that we would know and trust that He has us in Goshen.
GOD USES WHOM HE CHOOSES
Did you ever wonder how some things happened in the Bible? Like why in Jeremiah 25:9 did God call Nebuchadnezzar who was an evil and wicked King His servant? How did God take King Ahasuerus who originally signed the death warrant for the Jews and completely turn his heart to where Haman was hung instead and Mordecai who was originally set to hang ended up taking Haman's position as the Prince of Persia (or 2nd under King Ahasuerus). Then of course the most famous in the New Testament is Saul who literally stood by and watched as Jews were being persecuted and murdered. My heart grieves when I think of what Stephen went through in Acts 7. In verse 58, we see clearly that it was Saul who would later become the Apostle Paul standing and watching all of this happen. Why am I even bringing this up? Because in Joseph's Day God used a Pharaoh who did not know Him to lift him up to 2nd in command and to bless not only Joseph but also His people. Not only was Joseph blessed above all others in the land but just think of the heart that God gave Pharaoh to want to allow Joseph to bring hundreds and hundreds of his family members to live near him while they were still in a famine.
Genesis 47:5-6
Pharaoh looked at Joseph. “So, your father and brothers have arrived—a reunion! Egypt welcomes them. Settle your father and brothers on the choicest land—yes, give them Goshen. And if you know any among them that are especially good at their work, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
Amazing right? Egyptians did not like Shepherds if you read Genesis 46:34 yet by what Pharaoh says right here you would never know it. Pharaoh was even willing to have them over his flocks and herds. That is a major heart change that only God could have done. He can either harden a heart or soften it. In the story of Joseph this Pharaoh's heart was softened for the purposes of God, and he not only helped God's people but went even further and gave them the choicest land. This, dear ones is what is awaiting those of us who stand on God's word and believe He is the same yesterday, today, and forever as Hebrews 13:8 tells us. Don't fear Goshen because it was not always a place of deliverance, it was originally a place of beauty and the choicest land that was given to Jacob and his sons.
Either God is God or He isn't. Either He is still speaking, or He isn't. Either we believe His love for us and that His desire is to give us the best of the land or we set ourselves up to walk in unbelief and fall into the worship of Idols as the children of Israel did. There is no fence with God. There is no middle road. He doesn't even want His children to be lukewarm. It's either yay or nay. As for me and my house we are choosing life. We want the best of the land. We're willing to fight Giants if we must in order to take everything back that the enemy stole. Your prayers matter. Your words matter. Your heart matters. Your thought life matters.
And finally know this dear ones, not only does your Heavenly Father have a GRAND PLAN of deliverance for you, but He is also involved in every intriquite detail of where you are being taken to. A place of peace, rest, beauty, safety and prosperity. Trust Him and learn to pray from victory rather than for victory because Jesus already defeated all that we see before us on the Cross. We just need to acknowledge it and walk in it. My hope and prayer is that you know that their end is near, and your new beginning is just around the corner in a safe, beautiful, and glorious place called Goshen. Anyone with me?
Sheryl L. York
SlyLady63@protonmail.com
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